A Married Couple’s Sweet Music – A Graphene Battery Printing

This couple is making beautiful music together - they've printed a battery made of graphene.  Dr. Elena Polyakova and Dr. Daniel Stolyarov, originally from...

The Way to the Twilight Zone? Nope, it’s the Smart Highway

If you find yourself at route N329 in the city of Oss in the Netherlands at night, don't worry, you're not on your way...

Vinyl Records Turned Into Glasses, Love Them or Hate Them

Do you remember the vinyl records? These were extremely popular a good 20-30 years ago, but their glory kept fading until they finally got...

Solar More Expensive than Wind, Hydro in EU According to Study

Renewable energy consulting firm, Ecofys, recently released report that found that solar had higher costs than wind and hydroelectric, but fared much better than...

Scientists Use Chemical Tracers to Catch Fracking Offenders

Scientists developed a new method for detecting contamination that has leaked into the groundwater during fracking. The technique uses chemical tracers, which can lead...

Dutch Designer Extracts Smog Particles, Turns Them into Jewelry

Air pollution in the Chinese capital of Beijing is becoming a major disaster. Cutting down emissions from traffic and industry is no longer sufficient,...

People Paid to Walk or Bike in Norway

Imagine biking, or even just walking down the street and being asked to pull over.  Then imagine that instead of being handed a ticket...

Sino Skyscraper to Suck up the Smog

The Great Leap Forward can be credited not only for years of neck break growth and for lifting up millions of people out of...

How Recycled Art Can Raise Awareness of Alcoholism

Millions of tons of materials are used each year to create the cans, bottles, and bottle caps used by the alcohol industry. Traditionally, the...

Save the World, Eat Your Coffee

I guess that it comes as no surprise that the Americans are the leading consumers of coffee in the world, downing 400 million cups...